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US Exposes Global Shipping Container Price-Fixing Cartel Tied to Chinese Giants

May 20, 2026
Business/Shipping and Maritime

The United States has unsealed a sweeping criminal case accusing seven Chinese executives and four of the world’s largest shipping container manufacturers of running a coordinated scheme to restrict supply and inflate

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Japan Auto Industry Rewrites Strategy as BYD and China’s EV Surge Shake Global Car Order

May 20, 2026
Business/Electric vehicles

Japan’s automotive industry is undergoing a strategic reset as leading manufacturers scale back ambitious electric vehicle plans in response to the rapid rise of Chinese competitors such as BYD. Honda Motor has

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The Civilizations That Outgrow Themselves—and Then Collapse Quietly

May 20, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics/News

The question sounds almost philosophical at first: how long can a civilization survive before it collapses? But the research highlighted by El País treats it as a systems problem rather than speculation.

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Ebola Emergency Threatens Central Africa as Continental Alarm Is Raised

May 20, 2026
Education/Health

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has officially declared the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security,

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AI Agents Redraw the Future of Warehousing as Mecalux Bets on Autonomous Software

May 20, 2026
Business

Mecalux, a warehouse technology and intralogistics software company, has announced a major upgrade to its technology stack aimed at accelerating the deployment of AI agents across its software suite. The company has

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World Cup Under Fire as Climate Crisis Threatens Players and Fans

May 20, 2026
Business/Sports

Just weeks before the start of the men’s football World Cup on June 11 across the United States, Mexico, and Canada, growing alarm is being raised over the impact of climate change

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Taiwan’s Yáng Shuāng-zǐ Wins Booker Prize in Breakthrough Moment for Mandarin Literature

May 20, 2026
Human Rights/Taiwan/World

Taiwanese author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ has been awarded the Booker Prize for her novel “Taiwan Travelogue,” a historic win that highlights the growing global recognition of Mandarin-language literature. The announcement places her at

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Prabhakaran and the Politics of Total Power

May 20, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics/Sri Lanka

Thiruvengadam Velupillai Prabhakaran was a man who held Eelam Tamil politics under his control for nearly three decades. There has been no other figure in history who exercised such complete dominance over

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Fukuyama: What Xi Knows That Trump Doesn’t

May 20, 2026
Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

It was both painful and humiliating to watch media coverage of Donald Trump’s recent visit to Beijing, because it amply demonstrated America’s decline as a great power relative to China. Prior to the summit,

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A Warning Written in Emails Before the Sky Turned Deadly Over Cuba

May 20, 2026
Diplomacy/Geopolitics/Judiciary

According to documents released and analyzed by the National Security Archive, the story of the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown did not begin in the skies over Cuba, but in a growing

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Paid to Kill in the Bosnian War: Dark Allegations of Sniper Tourism in Sarajevo

May 20, 2026
Diplomacy/History/Judiciary

On a seemingly ordinary Sunday in June 1995, Sarajevo briefly resembled a city trying to live despite war. Sixteen-year-old Damir Šahat rode his blue BMX bicycle through the streets, while his family

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The Shadow of 1953 Still Shapes Iran’s Future, Says Historian Stephen Kinzer

May 20, 2026
Diplomacy/Geopolitics

In a wide-ranging conversation originally featured in El País, American historian and journalist Stephen Kinzer argues that Iran’s modern political trajectory cannot be understood without returning to one defining moment: the 1953

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The Verdict That Didn’t Settle Silicon Valley’s AI War

May 20, 2026
Diplomacy/Geopolitics/Judiciary

The most consequential artificial intelligence trial of the decade ended not with a dramatic legal reckoning, but with a procedural collapse. Elon Musk’s high-profile case against OpenAI, the company he helped found,

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Sri Lanka: Regime change disguised as “people’s power”

May 20, 2026
Geopolitics/Sri Lanka

Political and foreign affairs commentator Mohan Samaranayake meticulously deals with the overthrowing of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2022, in a manner that exposed the failure on the part of the then ruling

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Bangladesh’s Uncertain Horizon

May 20, 2026
Columns/Geopolitics

The Yunus-led interim-cum-marionette regime, installed on 8 August 2024 following the unlawful ouster of Bangladesh’s most accomplished HPM Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024, is portrayed by its critics as the culmination

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